#THE DEHRA DUN ACT, 1871 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. 
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SECTIONS. 

1. Extension of Regulations and Acts in force in Saharanpur to Dehra Dun. 
2. Jurisdiction of the High Court and Board of Revenue over Dehra Dun. 
3. District Court of Saharanpur to be District Court of Dehra Dun. 
4. Exemption of Jaunsar Bawar. 



#THE DEHRA DUN ACT 1871 

##ACT NO. 21 OF 1871 

(11th July, 1871.) 

An Act to give validity to the operation of the General Regulations and Acts within the Dehra Dun. 

**Preamble.**— WHEREAS it is necessary to give validity to the operation of the General Regulations 
and Acts within the district under the Superintendent of the Dehra Dun; It is hereby enacted as 
follows: — 

1. **Extension of Regulations and Acts in force in Saharanpur to Dehra Dun.** — The Regulations 
and Acts now in force in the district of Saharanpur are hereby declared to extend to the said district of Dehra 
Dun.

2. **Jurisdiction of the High Court and Board of Revenue over Dehra Dun.** —The High Court and 
the Board of Revenue of Uttar Pradesh shall exercise respectively, in the said district, all the powers 
which the said High Court or Board of Revenue are at present, respectively, authorized to exercise in any 
part of Agra.

3. **District Court of Saharanpur to be District Court of Dehra Dun.** —The District Court of 
Saharanpur shall be the District Court of such district until the State Government otherwise directs.

4. **Exemption of Jaunsar Bawar.** —Nothing in this Act shall apply to that portion of the Dehra Dun 
district called [^1] Jaunsar Bawar.



[^1]. “Jaunsar Bawar” was one of the Scheduled Districts of the State of Uttar Pradesh, see the Scheduled Districts Act, 1874 (14 of 
1874), First Schedule, Pt. IV, but has ceased to be so under the Constitution of India.